More than 2,300 militants were killed in infightings among rival militant groups in Syria in January, as tensions between various militant groups escalate, a monitoring group says.<\/p>\n
According to the report released by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 1700 militants\u00a0were killed in infightings among the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other militant groups in northern and eastern parts of Syria.<\/p>\n
The report also indicates that the identity of more than 600 militants killed has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of other militants also have gone missing, the report added.<\/p>\n
Some 979 members of the al-Qaeda-linked\u00a0Islamic Front, the al-Nusra Front, and the so-called Free Syrian Army have been killed in infightings with the ISIL or in blasts. At least 5 senior militants were among the dead.<\/p>\n
The ISIL militants also executed some 112 rival militants mostly in the cities of Aleppo, Homs, and Idlib.<\/p>\n
531 ISIL militants\u00a0were also killed in January. 34 of them blew themselves up in suicide attacks targeting rival militants and 56 others were executed by militants from the al- Nusra Front and the Free Syrian Army.<\/p>\n
On January 27, the activists said that Haji Bakr, a top militant who was the second in command in the ISIL,\u00a0had been killed in Syria in clashes with rival militants.<\/p>\n
The battles among militants have strengthened the view among their Western backers that they cannot be a genuine alternative for the Syrian government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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